Show WHAT MANIFEST DESTINY To the Editor etf The > HtraicC Since President McKInley ire 1 > memorable mem-orable apology at Boston lot his attitude in tho Philippines in engaging in war against their Inhabitants said that it was oar manifest destiny the writer hagi beei gttttr worried and grtevousiy perplexed ia trying to Basra eat what ilmo was havlmr spent many arrxtou and steeples nights during the coursa of which divers momentous questions bearing upon the subject InclutHnsr a great variety of past phenomena that up t0 th4 i present has received no adequate explanations how beens debated with1 TOttcli seriousness and volubility It new becomes my grateful duty as an > occupant occu-pant C our troubled planet vitally concerned con-cerned In its peaceful and atwcessful revolutions to intuit down to a volatile but confiding publta Ins as compact yet robust a form as the exigencies of the situation will admit those profound con cCusians that over attract the attention ot aS civilized disciples of the mystic philosophy 1 say mystic far the thing manifest destiny oniy flourishes In the sealjtJs of it distorted spirituality nunS Id always seen to advantage In a man afflicted with mental perturbation It Is well to sTate that manifest destiny has never bflia wholly domesticated having generally existed beyond the palo of civilized control preferring to run ae large In a wild state of nature Now and then tt may be seem prowling around cabinet meetings In > the courts of Rings manifesting Its destiny to drifting presidents presi-dents and permltllcs itself to be used its an explanation of the assertedly unex plalnatle Manifest destiny In > Its limited sense may be defined to be the process of going on a bust for something and getting any oWl thing not before taken In Its most extended sense It may be said to comprehend all that class of phenomena bath imStvidual and collective state as well as national not Included In the former for-mer definition and deriving Its sustenance susten-ance and personality from the combined action oi man and the forces that be or are These explanations upon superficial super-ficial examination may not be free from objections but when placed under the microscope they will appear above criticism crit-icism and the germs upon which manifest mani-fest destiny lives and thrives may bo readily detected To bring this doctrine home more forcibly forci-bly to the mind a few Illustrations must be produced and In these Illustrations I have been compelled to purloin considerable consider-able that found Its origin In the fertile volume of anothers brain that was devoted de-voted during the greater portion of the period of Us encasement within the folds of Its sky piece to the dissection of manifest destiny and divers other things of a kindred nature Anciently when Isaac lay upon the altar and was about to be dispatched by his father as an offering and the ram seeing his Imminent danger came to his rescue that ws a case of manifest destiny des-tiny for the rum but lint for Isaac as nothing could be more manifest titan that It was a matter of pure disinterested humanity on the part of the ram to In terceda at the critical moment If you engage in a fistic encounter with an adversary ad-versary and he lands a well organized stunner on the end of your nose and bv which you are made to see a galaxy of stan that would bo a very striking example of manifest destiny for your nose Again when a man falls Into the bottom of a well containing ten feet of water at high water mark and he immediately im-mediately makes up his mind to leave the bottom and come to the surface where the air circulates more freely that would not be manifest destiny according to an eminent authority any more thaw to condemn the trusts anti uphold me system of high protection but if ho climbs up within three feet or the top and falls back again turning a semen sault In his decent and carelessly itT lows the water to shut off Ms wind and he dies and is buried the next spring at low water mark that would be manifest destiny in a well on a large soak Asking tile bartender the next morning for a little old Bourbon about three fingers after having stood him off for twelve drinks the night before and being Informed in a soft manner I can do nothing for youthat to a good case of manifest destiny in a bar room BeIng chased down a canyon by a futlgrowni bear Into which you have Indiscreetly planted a Mauser bullet in the wrong place and at a critic moment of the chase you judiciously avoid a monstrous tree obstructing your course and against which the bea runs lacerating his Jugular Jugu-lar twice at the same place that undoubtedly un-doubtedly would be the strongest klntl of manifest destiny for the bear for it is very manifest that the bear had run his destiny A Republican who voted for Bryan and independent bimetalMsm ip MJ but who is now worshiping at the shrine or the golden calf Is one of those irresponsible delights to manifest destiny n ants that disport Kith ManlIest destiny may exist in a latent state in Inanimate things ana things animate without brains ana in fact all men who have lost individuality has It of selfdirection and the rower conscious personality no place in are intelligent sonality It is taid to be a kind of dis degrees manifesting itself in various ease of intensity in different individuals grees individ-uals President ilolvlnley has been for some time past and Is today suffering of it insomuch from a very violent siege it Is feared that after the Filipinos are properly assimilated by repeating rifleS and machine suns it will break out again In a more dangerous and complicated form and then manifest destiny with Mr McKinley at the helm would like to military excursions Into the South American run republics and after their fib Is destroyed anti arid independeace enty the American flags planted over their capitols he would shout in a spirit of that down bravado Who dunes pull which manifest destiny has erected It should be the duty of every loyal citIzen the lookout for manifest Izen to keep on destiny antI If caught he ought to be consigned to the lasann asylum for 100 years toother with her nccomPice ELIJAH PARR Ogden Utah |